Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

R

Released Jan 12, 1996

1h 28m

Comedy

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Innocent young black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, Ashtray's nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones), and she convinces him to go straight -- but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick (Darrel Heath).

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Godfrey Cheshire

Variety

Full of very obvious spoofery, and funnier in concept than in execution.

Feb 5, 2008

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

A free-for-all comic spoof that brings the 'hood' genre of Hollywood films full circle.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 30, 2004

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Things might be bad, the movie suggests, but they're not so bad you can't laugh.

Jan 1, 2000

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Sheila Reid

Women in the Life

The Wayans boys are back! Their satires are silly and sometimes hilarious, but more importantly they enable us to laugh at ourselves.

May 13, 2022

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Mal Vincent

The Virginian-Pilot

Only briefly do the writers attempt any humor that is inflammatory, however. They go, mainly, for broad slapstick - aiming low.

Rated: 1.5/4

Mar 1, 2022

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Deborah Hornblow

Hartford Courant

Perhaps if "Menace'' had been shorter and some of the weaker sketches had been left on the cutting-room floor, it would have added up to a stronger whole. In the end, it is too small a menace to match the efforts of filmmakers like Singleton and Lee.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 2, 2018

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Cort S

If you’re looking for a funny movie. This is it. Hilarious cast.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/20/25

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К.А. K

A vulgar, quirky, but insanely funny parody of the Ganster movies from the early 90’s. In our time such a film is probably impossible to shoot.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/15/25

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James N

I watched this movie at least 100 times when I was a teenager. It was sooo funny then and still makes me laugh now just a little differently as an adult.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/21/25

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Jarl S

Funny AF mane. This movie had me rolling on some of these scenes.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/25

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Byron H

3/4 30 years & counting it's still hilarious. Slapstick at its finest. Grandma is one of the coolest characters in movie history in this film... Believe it or not!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/01/25

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Audience Member

The best film i ever seen!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/19/24

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Dashiki

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Synopsis

Innocent young black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, Ashtray's nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones), and she convinces him to go straight -- but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick (Darrel Heath).

Director: Paris Barclay
Producer: Eric L. Gold, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Screenwriter: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Phil Beauman
Distributor: Miramax Films, Buena Vista Pictures
Production Co: Ivory Way Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 12, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.5M
Runtime: 1h 28m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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